A prophecy- 'I will come again.'
John
{14:1} Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
{14:2} In my Father’s house are many mansions: if [it were] not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
{14:3} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
A prophecy- 'I will come again.'
John
{3:14} And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up
{3:15} That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
{3:16} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
A prophecy- 'Everlasting life.'
A prophecy- 'Eternal life.'
Mark
{10:28} Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
{10:29} And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s
{10:30} But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
{10:31} But many [that are] first shall be last; and the last first.
A prophecy- 'Many that are first shall be last, and last first.'
A prophecy- 'And in the world to come eternal life.'
Predictions!
John
{6:54} Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
{6:55} For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
{6:56} He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
{6:57} As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
{6:58} This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
A prophecy- 'I will raise him up at the last day.'
A prophecy- 'He that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.'
*******
A prophecy predicts the future and eternal life is a life being lived forever. Do any of us have that reality? We are taught we only live for so long and that's that and everything else is supposition. The truth is we can have eternal life, our lives will be lived forever - we have an endless future.
It is predicted that once Jesus comes again that our eternal lives will begin without sin. We that are living will be raised up and changed, the dead in Christ- those who have died and are sleeping in the earth will be raised up and changed.
The prediction of the future is important. Some people spend a lot of money trying to get their future predicted. Some people are only concerned with this life here and now.
Prophecies in the Bible are renowned. History has verified that Biblical prophecy is undeniable. If we believe in one small bit of the proven prophecies it only holds to reason, it is only logical, that the rest will be true.
Eternal life is in our futures if we believe in Jesus Christ and the sacrifice He made to save us, if we are born again spiritually. If we remember Jesus died and lives for us, if we holdfast to that fact we will have a future, an eternal life with Him.
The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy. We must have the testimony of Jesus, and keep God's commandments, the two of them mingled together into perfection offered to us who are far from perfect. Through the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ our Savior, may our lives be lived in Him now and forever.
Amen.
7/7/10
Eze 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Eze 33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Warnings. We all know what warnings are. We start out learning about warnings when are growing up. Our first warnings probably come from our mother or father. We won't remember that first warning but we'll recall later ones. As parents we might remember giving warnings. In fact we might have heard or have been given a warning just today.
Don't do that…or…
If you do that…this will happen…
You better watch out or…
You understand what I'm saying. We aren't unfamiliar with warnings we live with them. We have warnings on packages, warnings on signs, warning lights on cars, when we drive we see warning lights on the road, we live with warnings. Even our bodies give us warning signals, a slight pain here warning of something more serious. A rash heralding an underlying disease, a persistent headache warning of a brain anomaly, you know what I mean.
Warnings.
'If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand'
Warn the wicked from their ways.
People don't like to be warned by others do they? Do you like to get warnings? Being told we're doing something wrong is NEVER fun.
It's not bad enough that we have to worry about our own eternal life we have an obligation to warn others about theirs. People who do this are liable to face a lot of ridicule, a lot of hassle because NO ONE wants to be told their eternal life is in jeopardy. No one wants to be judged and in reality we have no right to judge any one's eternal life, but we have to be able to judge actions don't we? If we didn't judge actions we wouldn't know right from wrong.
So yes, we have to warn the wicked from their wicked ways… we have to preach Jesus and salvation, right from wrong. And you know what, others might be preaching to us and we need to listen too. We can NEVER be holier than thou, NEVER. If our faults are made known to us we are obligated to fall to our knees and pray for forgiveness, repenting. Sometimes we are so caught up in looking at our own faults we don't take the time to warn others. It's not FUN to warn others. It's actually dangerous to warn others. We need to pray, to seek our Lord and Savior and ask for His loving guidance in our lives.
We want to be used of the Lord, we are accountable for ourselves to the Lord. By the grace of God may we be compelled to warn others as He would, not as we would, whether His way is more direct or less direct, let HIS will be done not ours. We just need to be aware that we are guilty of not warning others- even if the warning is the knowledge of Christ's soon coming and their need to prepare. While we don't want to be called fanatics you know what… a lot of Christ's followers are considered fanatics, troublemakers, rabble rousers, dissidents, crazies, freaks, abnormal. The Apostles were chased out of cities for their preaching, they were killed for their beliefs. We worry way too much about what others think of us when the only one that matters is God and what HE thinks of us.
Please Lord show us how to live for You. If there are those that need warning let us have the courage and faith in You to warn as You would have us do in Your way, not our way. Bless us Lord, keep us Lord, help us Lord. By Your grace, Your mercy, Your love now and forever!
Amen.
7/7/11
Sanctuary being
cleansed.
The 2300 day
(year) prophecy of Daniel said this--
Dan 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a
little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east,
and toward the pleasant land.
Dan 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of
heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and
stamped upon them.
Dan 8:11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Dan 8:12 And an host was given him against the
daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the
ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Dan 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and
another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the
vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to
give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Remember studying
this before? The historic
knowledge of Medes Persia, Greece, Roman, and out of the Roman Empire the
Roman Papal power that was so strange and diverse, so different than the other
powers.
Remember
discussing the host of heaven were cast down under the Roman rule when the
Savior was born. Jesus
was born, lived, and was crucified all under the Roman rule.
We know for a fact that Papal Rome was formed as the counterfeit church
deceiving many and that Satan behind the scenes ruled this little horn
power. The truth was definitely
cast to the ground. Transgression lived in the heart of the deceptive powers
that morphed from pagan Rome into papal Rome.
How long… how long would this vision which
included the daily sacrifice being taken away, which included the desolation of
all that God had set up upon earth as His ways. How long would the sanctuary and
those of God be debased, demeaned, abused?
We have to
consider what the sanctuary meant to God's people. The sanctuary and all its
services came into being out of a covenant God made with His people. God would
be their God and they would be His people and they would obey His commands and
He would be with them. Even as
soon as that covenant was made, or rather not much longer after it was newly
enacted and accepted by God's people, then God's people broke that
covenant. Rather than destroy the
people Moses stepped in and pleaded for their lives.
God knew that a system would have to be set up that would symbolize a
mediation between Him and His people. Back when Abraham was alive God called for
Abraham to offer up His only son Isaac.
A symbolic event forever afterwards. When man sinned- animals were first
sacrificed to make them coats of the animal skins. Abel the second born son of
our first parents offered up an animal sacrifice to God.
The idea of there needing to be a mediator between man and God was not a
new one, it was ancient, it existed from the moment sin entered the world. A
way had to be made for man to be reunited with God again.
Under Moses'
leadership the wilderness sanctuary was set up. David, beloved of God, wanted
to erect a permanent sanctuary so that God could dwell with them in the land
God had given to them to be theirs forever. Solomon, David's son was allowed to
build the sanctuary and they called it Solomon's Temple. All the rituals
involved with the sanctuary were kept there in that temple for many, many
years.
Built in 957 BC and totally destroyed in 586 BC
- For 371 years that sanctuary was used for the ritual sacrificial services that
God required of His people.
457 BC saw the
final call to finish rebuilding the sanctuary and the call for the Jewish people
to return there and begin their services once more.
Then in 70 AD, 527 years later it was completely destroyed once again and
has never been rebuilt since then.
The sanctuary and
it's services were all precursors pointing to the realized sacrificial act
found in God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, the Messiah.
So of course, after our Savior died the temple veil was torn in two, and
the need for the earthly sanctuary was no longer.
But tell me
something-- this sacrificial system which in all reality had its start the
moment sin entered the world, was it over? Was sin gone? The only way for the
entire sacrificial system- the only way for the need of sacrifice to be removed would be
if sin was no more.
God has taken
mankind step by step through a process that points solely to the Savior and us
finding forgiveness in Him and Him alone without any other person involved. The
Way was pointed to, the Way was realized.
Read this-- talking about the New Jerusalem that
will exist after our Savior comes again and then ultimately brings His people
back to earth and makes it new--
Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the
Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
The Way realized,
then and only then when no temple would be needed any longer. Until that day
there would be a temple, there would be a sanctuary. But if that sanctuary
which was such a huge part of the life of God's people was no longer of
significance upon earth when our Savior died, where was the sanctuary that
would be trodden underfoot 2300 years?
Where was the
sanctuary at before it was erected upon earth under Moses' guidance?
Exo 25:40 And look that thou make them after
their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exo 26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle
according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
Heb 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the
true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man
Heb 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow
of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the
tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the
pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
If our Savior did
away with the need for an earthly sanctuary it was because HE became the only
sacrifice needed from then on. Our Savior - all of the sacrificial offerings
ever made pointed to His great sacrifice- HIMSELF. No earthly sacrifice, no
symbolic sacrifice was ever needed again because our Savior died for us
becoming that Sacrifice. From
then on faith alone in that Sacrifice of Christ's would be needed. And our
Savior left earth after His resurrection and went to the HEAVENLY SANCTUARY!
Something was to
begin to happen in the HEAVENLY sanctuary after the 2300 year prophecy was up,
but what? How is it significant
to us here on earth? To understand this we HAVE to understand what was meant by
the cleansing of the sanctuary.
The cleansing of
the sanctuary-
Dan 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand
and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
More study on
this tomorrow by the grace of God our Lord and Savior!
Amen.
{14:1} Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
{14:2} In my Father’s house are many mansions: if [it were] not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
{14:3} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.
A prophecy- 'I will come again.'
John
{3:14} And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up
{3:15} That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
{3:16} For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
A prophecy- 'Everlasting life.'
A prophecy- 'Eternal life.'
Mark
{10:28} Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
{10:29} And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or
mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s
{10:30} But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
{10:31} But many [that are] first shall be last; and the last first.
A prophecy- 'Many that are first shall be last, and last first.'
A prophecy- 'And in the world to come eternal life.'
Predictions!
John
{6:54} Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
{6:55} For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
{6:56} He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
{6:57} As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
{6:58} This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
A prophecy- 'I will raise him up at the last day.'
A prophecy- 'He that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.'
*******
A prophecy predicts the future and eternal life is a life being lived forever. Do any of us have that reality? We are taught we only live for so long and that's that and everything else is supposition. The truth is we can have eternal life, our lives will be lived forever - we have an endless future.
It is predicted that once Jesus comes again that our eternal lives will begin without sin. We that are living will be raised up and changed, the dead in Christ- those who have died and are sleeping in the earth will be raised up and changed.
The prediction of the future is important. Some people spend a lot of money trying to get their future predicted. Some people are only concerned with this life here and now.
Prophecies in the Bible are renowned. History has verified that Biblical prophecy is undeniable. If we believe in one small bit of the proven prophecies it only holds to reason, it is only logical, that the rest will be true.
Eternal life is in our futures if we believe in Jesus Christ and the sacrifice He made to save us, if we are born again spiritually. If we remember Jesus died and lives for us, if we holdfast to that fact we will have a future, an eternal life with Him.
The testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy. We must have the testimony of Jesus, and keep God's commandments, the two of them mingled together into perfection offered to us who are far from perfect. Through the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ our Savior, may our lives be lived in Him now and forever.
Amen.
7/7/10
Eze 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Eze 33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Warnings. We all know what warnings are. We start out learning about warnings when are growing up. Our first warnings probably come from our mother or father. We won't remember that first warning but we'll recall later ones. As parents we might remember giving warnings. In fact we might have heard or have been given a warning just today.
Don't do that…or…
If you do that…this will happen…
You better watch out or…
You understand what I'm saying. We aren't unfamiliar with warnings we live with them. We have warnings on packages, warnings on signs, warning lights on cars, when we drive we see warning lights on the road, we live with warnings. Even our bodies give us warning signals, a slight pain here warning of something more serious. A rash heralding an underlying disease, a persistent headache warning of a brain anomaly, you know what I mean.
Warnings.
'If thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thine hand'
Warn the wicked from their ways.
People don't like to be warned by others do they? Do you like to get warnings? Being told we're doing something wrong is NEVER fun.
It's not bad enough that we have to worry about our own eternal life we have an obligation to warn others about theirs. People who do this are liable to face a lot of ridicule, a lot of hassle because NO ONE wants to be told their eternal life is in jeopardy. No one wants to be judged and in reality we have no right to judge any one's eternal life, but we have to be able to judge actions don't we? If we didn't judge actions we wouldn't know right from wrong.
So yes, we have to warn the wicked from their wicked ways… we have to preach Jesus and salvation, right from wrong. And you know what, others might be preaching to us and we need to listen too. We can NEVER be holier than thou, NEVER. If our faults are made known to us we are obligated to fall to our knees and pray for forgiveness, repenting. Sometimes we are so caught up in looking at our own faults we don't take the time to warn others. It's not FUN to warn others. It's actually dangerous to warn others. We need to pray, to seek our Lord and Savior and ask for His loving guidance in our lives.
We want to be used of the Lord, we are accountable for ourselves to the Lord. By the grace of God may we be compelled to warn others as He would, not as we would, whether His way is more direct or less direct, let HIS will be done not ours. We just need to be aware that we are guilty of not warning others- even if the warning is the knowledge of Christ's soon coming and their need to prepare. While we don't want to be called fanatics you know what… a lot of Christ's followers are considered fanatics, troublemakers, rabble rousers, dissidents, crazies, freaks, abnormal. The Apostles were chased out of cities for their preaching, they were killed for their beliefs. We worry way too much about what others think of us when the only one that matters is God and what HE thinks of us.
Please Lord show us how to live for You. If there are those that need warning let us have the courage and faith in You to warn as You would have us do in Your way, not our way. Bless us Lord, keep us Lord, help us Lord. By Your grace, Your mercy, Your love now and forever!
Amen.
7/7/11
Sanctuary being
cleansed.
The 2300 day
(year) prophecy of Daniel said this--
Dan 8:9 And out of one of them came forth a
little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east,
and toward the pleasant land.
Dan 8:10 And it waxed great, even to the host of
heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and
stamped upon them.
Dan 8:11 Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Dan 8:12 And an host was given him against the
daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the
ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Dan 8:13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and
another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the
vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to
give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Remember studying
this before? The historic
knowledge of Medes Persia, Greece, Roman, and out of the Roman Empire the
Roman Papal power that was so strange and diverse, so different than the other
powers.
Remember
discussing the host of heaven were cast down under the Roman rule when the
Savior was born. Jesus
was born, lived, and was crucified all under the Roman rule.
We know for a fact that Papal Rome was formed as the counterfeit church
deceiving many and that Satan behind the scenes ruled this little horn
power. The truth was definitely
cast to the ground. Transgression lived in the heart of the deceptive powers
that morphed from pagan Rome into papal Rome.
How long… how long would this vision which
included the daily sacrifice being taken away, which included the desolation of
all that God had set up upon earth as His ways. How long would the sanctuary and
those of God be debased, demeaned, abused?
We have to
consider what the sanctuary meant to God's people. The sanctuary and all its
services came into being out of a covenant God made with His people. God would
be their God and they would be His people and they would obey His commands and
He would be with them. Even as
soon as that covenant was made, or rather not much longer after it was newly
enacted and accepted by God's people, then God's people broke that
covenant. Rather than destroy the
people Moses stepped in and pleaded for their lives.
God knew that a system would have to be set up that would symbolize a
mediation between Him and His people. Back when Abraham was alive God called for
Abraham to offer up His only son Isaac.
A symbolic event forever afterwards. When man sinned- animals were first
sacrificed to make them coats of the animal skins. Abel the second born son of
our first parents offered up an animal sacrifice to God.
The idea of there needing to be a mediator between man and God was not a
new one, it was ancient, it existed from the moment sin entered the world. A
way had to be made for man to be reunited with God again.
Under Moses'
leadership the wilderness sanctuary was set up. David, beloved of God, wanted
to erect a permanent sanctuary so that God could dwell with them in the land
God had given to them to be theirs forever. Solomon, David's son was allowed to
build the sanctuary and they called it Solomon's Temple. All the rituals
involved with the sanctuary were kept there in that temple for many, many
years.
Built in 957 BC and totally destroyed in 586 BC
- For 371 years that sanctuary was used for the ritual sacrificial services that
God required of His people.
457 BC saw the
final call to finish rebuilding the sanctuary and the call for the Jewish people
to return there and begin their services once more.
Then in 70 AD, 527 years later it was completely destroyed once again and
has never been rebuilt since then.
The sanctuary and
it's services were all precursors pointing to the realized sacrificial act
found in God's Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, the Messiah.
So of course, after our Savior died the temple veil was torn in two, and
the need for the earthly sanctuary was no longer.
But tell me
something-- this sacrificial system which in all reality had its start the
moment sin entered the world, was it over? Was sin gone? The only way for the
entire sacrificial system- the only way for the need of sacrifice to be removed would be
if sin was no more.
God has taken
mankind step by step through a process that points solely to the Savior and us
finding forgiveness in Him and Him alone without any other person involved. The
Way was pointed to, the Way was realized.
Read this-- talking about the New Jerusalem that
will exist after our Savior comes again and then ultimately brings His people
back to earth and makes it new--
Rev 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the
Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
The Way realized,
then and only then when no temple would be needed any longer. Until that day
there would be a temple, there would be a sanctuary. But if that sanctuary
which was such a huge part of the life of God's people was no longer of
significance upon earth when our Savior died, where was the sanctuary that
would be trodden underfoot 2300 years?
Where was the
sanctuary at before it was erected upon earth under Moses' guidance?
Exo 25:40 And look that thou make them after
their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Exo 26:30 And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle
according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
Heb 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the
true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man
Heb 8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow
of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the
tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the
pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
If our Savior did
away with the need for an earthly sanctuary it was because HE became the only
sacrifice needed from then on. Our Savior - all of the sacrificial offerings
ever made pointed to His great sacrifice- HIMSELF. No earthly sacrifice, no
symbolic sacrifice was ever needed again because our Savior died for us
becoming that Sacrifice. From
then on faith alone in that Sacrifice of Christ's would be needed. And our
Savior left earth after His resurrection and went to the HEAVENLY SANCTUARY!
Something was to
begin to happen in the HEAVENLY sanctuary after the 2300 year prophecy was up,
but what? How is it significant
to us here on earth? To understand this we HAVE to understand what was meant by
the cleansing of the sanctuary.
The cleansing of
the sanctuary-
Dan 8:14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand
and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
More study on
this tomorrow by the grace of God our Lord and Savior!
Amen.